Life today is increasingly lived online, where one can read anything and participate in events, lectures, and seminars all without leaving home. Looking for a book club? 860,000 results come up when one Google’s “Skype Book Clubs,”... Read More

A father’s degrading opinion of a son can be the catalyst for a lifetime of low self-esteem and desultory behavior, a painful situation brought center stage in Ain’t No Bum. Every relationship exhibits idiosyncratic differences, but... Read More

"Defending the Citadel" is one professor’s reflections on the past eighty years of higher education in America. Lanter’s story is told through the lens of four decades of administrative and faculty conflict at Belleville Area... Read More

South Dakota’s unique political culture is examined in this collection of twelve scholarly essays that address the state’s sociopolitical dynamics. Editors Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller and Donald C. Simmons, Jr. have all written... Read More

On August 31, 1886, the largest earthquake ever centered in the eastern United States, destroyed much of Charleston, South Carolina. Tremors were felt as far north as Maine and west of the Mississippi River; it was stronger than the 2010... Read More

Two thousand years of Christian anti-Semitism provided the “nitroglycerin” for the “dynamite” of the Final Solution: “The Nazis simply had to light the match,” Gabriel Wilensky writes. His accessible first book details the... Read More

As she did previously with the Book of Genesis, author Veda Duff Tohline has created a marvelous collection of character studies of the personalities in the Book of Exodus. "Citizens of Time in the Exodus" provides a detailed account of... Read More

A unique vacation, one last hurrah before settling into parenthood, leaves Jenny and Stan Brown marooned for life on a tropical island. Thus begins Stan’s Leap, Tom Duerig’s first novel. After a rather superficial start—think... Read More